Excellent festival and amazing line-up. 013 and MIDI are a great combo for organizing a festival like this.

The absolutely best show was performed by Swans! Michael Gira was in flames while on the stage. And all that crushing bass and hammering percussions. Sssshhhwwwwooooooshhhhh!!!!!!

Pentagram was great! For so long I've been graving for a chance to see them. 20 Buck Spin, When the Screams Come, Sign of the Wolf, All You Sins, Relentless, … !!!!

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/img/music/roadburn/2011/day1/88.jpg

I have to give big hand for Circle and Pharaoh Overlord! Unfortunately I saw them only on Friday and Saturday, but both…

It had been almost three years since I saw Tom G. Warrior on stage. And then it was of course with Celtic Frost. When Triptykon's tour in Japan was announced a few months ago, I had to circle 4th of June in my calender very carefully.

Well, they came and they delivered. Tom even spoke a couple of times thanking the Japanese audience. But if you look at the setlist, you'll notice that in mainly consisted of Celtic Frost songs. Nothing to complain in them, but Triptykon's own material could easily stand on it's own. And I've heard…

Nine Inch Nails show in Summer Sonic 2009 was my fourth NIN show. I usually don't like to see the same band too many times, because I feel like "wearing them out". This time I assured myself that going to the show is necessary, because this is "Wave Goodbye" tour and this is also an opportunity to see them on some other continent.

The show felt the least live experience of their shows I have seen, because Alessandro Cortini left NIN live already in the end of 2008, but Trent has not added another keyboard player to that post. Therefore…

Last December in Boris' show when they gave out fliers for this concert the line-up sounded sort of too good to be true. Well, it was too good to be true, because it was not that kind of great success I was expecting.

My expectations in the order of greatness:

1. Boris
2. Sunn O)))
3. Envy
4. Isis
5. Growing

The reality:

1. Isis
2. Envy
3. Sunn O)))
4. Boris
5. Growing

Growing played about a year ago in Helsinki with Boris. Then I did not have much expectations for their show, but it turned out to be…

Church of Misery pulled a great show in Shimokitazawa Shelter on 7th of March 2009. Too bad their singer Hideki decided to quit in December. They had finished a new record with him and it is coming out in this month. But, on the other hand Negishi (did vocals on Master of Brutality album) seems to be the right man to replace him for now.

Once again Negishi gave 100% for the show. Brutal and sacrificing. And the band gave the best show I have seen so far. Murdering doom with shitloads of groove. This is what the heavy…

I was this close to buy flight tickets to Copenhagen because the most of the Boris' Euro gigs were announced days before their Finnish dates. Luckily I hesitated for a day. On the other hand their gig in Helsinki was pretty much fulfillment of my dreams or something, so the money probably would not been an issue, even if I went to Denmark.

Boris' show was opened with VON as intro. During the song the stage was filled with smoke and they took their positions. I had not been reading any gig reviews or interviews lately, so I was…

When it was announced that Fu Manchu is coming to the town I was thinking that maybe 25€ is a bit too much for fmc. Later I found out that Truckfighters is coming to support them, so I was left pretty much with no excuse not to purchase a ticket and to go there. It turned out the be a cool fuzzravaganza and now I'm gonna tell you why.

Truckfighters got on the stage pretty much at 22:30 as it was announced. Man, when they started with the riff of Desert Cruiser, the air was filled with fuzzzz. Even…

What a great job Ankkarock organizing did while trying to ruin the climax of Nine Inch Nails' gig with their idiotic fireworks (edit: I have to admit that the intention was good but the timing was just crap). Trent was on stage playing Hurt when they started shooting fireworks. Trent had to stop because no-one could hear a shit what he was playing or singing. Finland, zero points. Well, luckily he didn't get that pissed off that he would have called it quits.

The gig itself was cool as always, new lightwall looked nice and Trent even mentioned in…

On Friday 27th of July at Qstock Festival The Coffinshakers rise from their crypt to curse Finland with their unholy passion. The gig was indoors and the space was pretty limited which caused that some of the curious people did not get in. The band's visit to Finland's official charts (on place #38) showed clearly in the number of attenders as fresh bite marks on the neck of pale young lady. For the people who don't know, the recipe of The Coffinshakers concept is country music, some rock'n'roll and… vampire tales.

These dedicated Swedish vampires received a really good acceptance…

Velvet Revolver pulled a gig at Provinssirock on 16th of June. I must say I have to admire Slash, Duff and Matt coming up with a new band and new style. It could have been pretty easy for them just go around playing old GNR songs over and over again and they probably could have made the same income without writing a single new song. But no, they had guts to pick a completely different type of singer and start a new band with new 21th century songs.

Their gig in Helsinki on 2005 was a proof that they have…